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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



change seed frequently and use commercial 

 fertilizers rather than barnyard manure. In 

 New Brunswick and Maine a crop of 300 

 or 350 bushels an acre is not uncommon. 

 The planting is done with a machine that is 

 equipped with a fertilizer sprinkler as well. 

 Twenty dollars an acre is not counted ex- 

 travagant fertilizing. Ontario growers 

 must change their methods or lose the mar- 

 ket." 



By way of aiding the growers to prevent 

 the loss entailed by the rot, the bacteriologi- 



cal department of the Ontario Agricultural 

 College, which has been studying the disease 

 for the last year, would like to ascertain if 

 the disease in various parts of Ontario is 

 similar to the one with which it has been 

 working, and which caused so much dam- 

 age last year, and hence would like farmers 

 troubled with this disease to mail an affect- 

 ed potato and state at the same time if they 

 were troubled with the soft or wet rot last 

 year and to what extent the rot is present in 

 this season's crop. 



VEGETABLE GROWERS BEFORE THE TARIFF COMMISSION 



DEPUTATIONS from the Market 

 Gardeners' Association of the pro- 

 vince of Quebec, and from the Ontario 

 Vegetable Growers' Association waited on 

 the tariff commission during October and 

 asked for greater protection. 



The members of the Ontario association 

 who waited on the commission when it sat 

 in Toronto, asked for the following duty : 

 Cucumbers, 15 cents per dozen; celery, 15 

 cents per dozen ; cabbages, three cents each ; 

 beans, other than dry, 40 cents per bushel ; 

 tomatoes, two cents per pound ; onions, dry, 

 40 cents per bushel of 50 pounds ; potatoes, 

 25 cents per bushel ; water melons, five 

 cents, and musk melons three, cents each, 

 other vegetables not enumerated 25 per 

 cent, ad valorem. 



The Quebec Market Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion appealed to the commissioners when it 

 sat in Montreal and asked for much higher 

 duties than did the Ontario association. Its 

 demands were as follows: Cucumbers, 25 

 cents per dozen ; lettuce, 25 cents per dozen ; 

 celery, 25 cents per dozen ; &gg plant, 25 

 cents per dozen ; green beans, peas and 

 spinach, 50 cents per bushel ; tomatoes, 5 

 cents per pound; onions and potatoes, 25 

 cents per bushel ; green cabbage, 3 cents 

 per head ; cauliflower, 3 cents per head ; 

 radishes, 10 cents per pound; parsley and 



watercress, 25 cents per pound ; watermelon, 

 5 cents each ; musk melon, 3 cents each : 

 salted vegetables for pickle, i cent 

 per pound ; other vegetables not enume- 

 rated, and green corn, 25 per cent, ad 

 valorem. 



The deputation from the Ontario associa- 

 tion was introduced by Mr. A. Campbell. 

 M. P., and Hon. J. W. St. John, M.L.A., 

 and included Messrs. A. McMeans, of 

 Brantford ; J. L. Hilborn, of Leamington, 

 and Jos. Rush, of Humber Bay. A num- 

 ber of other well known growers were in at- 

 tendance, including Messrs. John Atkin, of 

 Sarnia; Geo. Syme, jr., R. Lankin and F. 

 F. Reeves, officers of the Ontario associa- 

 tion. 



In introducing the deputation Mr. Camp- 

 bell pointed out that while the growers were 

 aware that a general increase in the tariff' 

 would result to their benefit they realized 

 also that the consumers' interests must be 

 considered, and therefore, were moderate 

 in their demands. The existing duty af- 

 fords little protection. Large quantities of 

 vegetables are shipped into Canada, a con- 

 siderable proportion of which are in a dam- 

 aged condition. These vegetables are often 

 passed at too low a valuation. If the in- 

 dustry was properly protected it would in- 

 crease enormouslv. 



